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TIMMINS, ONTARIO Members Canadian Weekly Newspaper Assoctation; Ontarioâ€" Quebo: Newspaper Association; Classa "A" Weekly Group OFTICE 26â€"â€"â€"â€"PHONESâ€"â€"â€"â€"RESIDENCE 70 Published Every Monday and Thursday by: GEO LAKE, Owner and Publisher Subscription Rates: Canadaâ€"$2.00 Per Year Uniteq Statesâ€"$3.00 Per Yeat It is difficult to understand how governments| expects municipalities and individuals to observe the rules and regulations designed for the protecâ€" tion of the public health when public institutions show contempt themselves for safeguards that seem imperative for public safety. Only a few weeks ago The Advance was calling attention to the case of a man suffering from an advanced stage of a communicable disease who at his own request had been committed to Haileybury jail so that he might receive treatment. This unfortunâ€" ate man was let loose again on the public, allowed to travel on trains, mingle with the public, an.d eventually reach his former home town. There was nothing that could be done for him there, so apparently effort was made to foist him upon the | care of Timmins. Eventually Timmins had to take the risk and danger of having this man kept in its local lockâ€"up for week. If there was no danger in this for the public, then all the health talk that is given out by doctors and organizations must be a lot of deceptive rot. It is impossible to believe thatl the safeguards recommended in such cases are not founded on fact and knowledge. The progress made in curbing various diseases is proof that the health departments know what they are talking about and that the doctors are not giving unneâ€" cessary or useless advice in the matter. In the town of Timmins for instance, the public health has been guarded through the following of the suggestions of the local and provincial departâ€" ments of health. This being the case, why should not government institutions set an example in coâ€"operation and observance of the rules for public safety? Surely a government institution should do as much as is expected from municipalities and in â€" dividuals to guard the public health. If there were no facilities at Haileybury for treating the sick man in question, he should have been promptly transferred to one of the provincial institutions maintained for the purpose. Eventually this was done, but it required much effort, and in the meanâ€" time Timmins was put to considerable expense that was entirely uncalled for. Of course, the chief| evil was the fact that the public safety seemed | endangered because the government did not apâ€" pear to recognize its own rules and regulations to guard the public health. Now there is a second local case that suggests deplorable failure on the part of the government in the matter of providing facilities for the handâ€" ling of cases for which all municipalities are Supâ€" posed on their part to make provision. A coronetr‘s jury at Haileybury this week enquiring into the death of a Timmins man who died on Friday night in the guard‘s room at the Haileybury jail, strongly recommended that more suitable accommodation than aÂ¥ailable to date in the district jail should be provided for mentally afmicteq persons awaitâ€" ing transportation to a provincial hospital for the mentally ill. For years The Advance has urged that the Haileybury jail should have proper quarâ€" ters and other facilities for the care of the menâ€" tally afflicted. There isn‘t even a paddea cell at Haileybury jail. Indeéd, Timmins appears to havel the only padded cell in the North Land, The padded cell here was installed because it was seen that it meant the endangering of the life and limb of the mentally affliicted to attempt to do without such accommodation. At the same time the proâ€" vincial autherities did not forget to impress on Timmins the duty the town owed in the matter of protecting any person mentally ill who had to be confined here for his own protection and the proâ€" tection of others. Governments are forever seekâ€" ing the coâ€"operation of newspapers in striving to enlist the goodwill and assistance of the general public in the matter of efforts for the public health and safety. Newspapers gladly give such coâ€"operâ€" ation, but it does seem that governments might in all decency and fairness take a little of their own medicine. It may be that the unfortunate Timmins man who died last week at Haileybury would not have been alive toâ€"day no matter what equipment might have been at Haileybury. At the same time it is impossible to escape the reâ€" sponsibility that rests on the government in the matter. The man‘s life may easily be considered as forfeited to the fact that governments often fail to provide the safeguards they coolly require from others. Irrespective of the facts in the case last week at Haileybury, it is safe to say that in the public interests Haileybury jail should have a padded cell and other equipment to give the menâ€" tally eMficted proper chance for their lives when it is necessary to hold them there. ovmecommpns I "mmm”mmww Timmins, Ont., Thursday, Feb. 13th, 1936 The fact that the unfortunate man was in the guard‘s own room at the time of his death suggests that the jail officials did all they could to provide the best accommodation. The truth is, however, that with the best will in the world, the proper accommodation was not possible. The Ontario government recently secured a lot of publicity by abolishing the term, ‘"insane asyâ€" lum." It would be well to note the fact that under one name or another institutions for the care of Che Vorrupine the mentailly affiicted are necessary. Insanity itâ€" self can not be aboliished by act of legislature like the taking over of the quintuplets. At the time the government made its grand gesture of banning "insane asylums" and substituting the name "mental hospitals," The Advance pointed out the government would have shown much more regard for mentally affliicted persons by the provision of proper accommodation for their care at such places as Haileybury. There are always a number of mental cases from unorganized territory for which no one but the provincial government can be held responsible. For such cases there can be no other place of confinement at present but the Haileybury jail, pending the arrangements for admission of the patients to regular provincial inâ€" stitutions for their special care. It may be argued for the cases arising in towns and other municipal organizations that the municipality should provide the necessary accommodation for the care and safety of the afflicted person. But if the governâ€"« ment itself neglects its plain duty in its own special cases how in common sense o. fairness can it exâ€" pect municipalities to do more than the governâ€" ment attempts itself. According to advices from Toronto the Liberals hope to confine the discussions in the legislature which o'pened this week to such matters as the income tax legislation, the school question, and one or two other matters. On the other hand the opposition intends to bring to the front such quesâ€" tions as the Northern Development department, the Liquor Control Act, the matter of political patâ€" ronage, relief and unemployment and some other affairs they think are of special interest. Of course, all these matters are of great importance, but none of them are so vital to the average man as the danger he faces now of losing all semblance of selfâ€"government. If the present tendency is allowed to continue unchecked people in general will have no more freedom or real selfâ€"government than Russian people have. The Advance has reâ€" ferred on numerous occasions to the tendency to take away all rights from municipalities. It will be idle years from now to argue that some municipalâ€" ities were themselves to blame for the loss of their freedom. Present indications suggest that all municipalities will lose their powers and be no more than rubber stamps for provincial politicians, It will be poor comfort to remember that some municipalities allowed their heritage to be traded for a mess of political pottage. Wl P D DLAAA L It would be well for the average man to realize that the nearest approach he has to any measure of selfâ€"government is in the municipal sphere. It is one place where he has direct influence and conâ€" trol. He is close enough to the municipality to know its conditions and he is able to do something about it. In the municipality the majority can really rule, if they are sincere and thoughtful. In both the provincial and Dominion spheres, election figures too often prove that there are occasions where the majority will may be disregarded with impunity. Every election the party that loses out is able to prove by the actual figures that under real majority vote it would have won, or nearly so. While these figures can scarcely be accepted at their face value, there is decided point to them. The truth is that the ordinary citizen has only a very remote control of the provincial or Dominion political situation. He has to stage something almost akin to a revolution to make his influence felt. It is different in regard to municipal politics. Municipal administration, as The Advance has repeatedly pointed out recently, is the last stana of presentâ€"day selfâ€"government. If the ordinary citizen loses the right of muniâ€" cipal government, he can well bid farewell to his real political freedom. That is the present danger. It is a very real menace at the moment. It is one of the ironies of the day that the threat to selfâ€" government should come under a soâ€"called Liberal government. It is not, however, the spirit of Libâ€" erals. True Liberals will oppose to the utmost any sovietâ€"like attempt to steal the right of the ordiâ€" nary man to selfâ€"government. Because of this it is hoped that at the present session of the Ontario House, Liberal as well as Conservative members will go on record as utterly opposed to any form of central dictatorship, under any excuse. There should be emphatic reâ€"affirmation of the charter of rights for municipalities. Municipalities have the right even to make mistakes. The record shows that they make comparatively fewer serious misâ€" takes than do central governments, and they cerâ€" tainly show less tendency to continue making the same mistakes. It would be a good thing for the municipalities, for the province, for the people, yes, even for the party in power, if those seeking to steal away from the municipalities their rights and powers were emphatically informed that muniâ€" cipal selfâ€"government must be preserved. is .ds . lt Aine Aits dsA is sls cA sA ic PA t » GRAVEL AND SANDâ€"AND PLACER According to an official statement only 844 white Italians have died in Ethiopia from all causes durâ€" ing the past year. Why the word" only?" As the crib players would say, even 844 white Italians are not to be sneezed at. First they took away his children from Papa Dionne. Now they are expropriating his land. It would seem that the lot of the father of quintuâ€" plets is not a happy one. Elsewhere in this issue will be found a letter THTE PORCUPINE ADVANCTE, TIMMINS®S, ONTARIO Special Bargain EXCU RSIO N S ROUTESâ€"Tickets good going via Port Arthur. Ont.. Armstrong, Ont.. Chiâ€" cago, IIl., or Sault Ste. Marie, returnâ€" ing via same route and line only. CGGenerous optional routings. STOFOVERSâ€"within limit of ticket, both going and returningâ€"at Port Arthur, Ont.. Armstrong, Ont., and west; also at Chicago, Ill., Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., and west, in accordance with tariffs of United States lines. One of the most outstanding pieces of promotion work ever attempted by a single individual in the development of national welfare in this country, has just ‘been completed by Sir James Woods, president of the Gordon, Macâ€" Kay Company of Toronto. Sir James has written 7500 personal letters to professional and business associates, urging their support to the newlyâ€" formed Health League of Canada in its efforts to carry forward a general campaign for health in Canada. The Health League, which is to asâ€" sume some of the Dominionâ€"wide acâ€" tivities of the Social Hygiene «Council, will have as one of its "most important objectives, the universal pasteurization of milk," Sir James stated in that letâ€" ter. In addition to the letter which emphasized his own personal feelings ard convictions on the health problem, Sir James forwarded to each person a copy of an address by Dr. Gordon Bates, General Director of the Health League of Canada, given before the Ontario Milk Distributors‘ Association. Urging that each pay special attention to the facts contained in that address Sir James concluded: Immense W ork Done for Health League "Unfortunately, a very large proporâ€" tion of our milk supply in Canada is still unpasteurized, with the result that the best of foodsâ€"milkâ€"catrries with it disease and death." As an illustration of the difficulties faceq by local health authorities and the apathy, or very often prejudice, of community leaders in matters of comâ€" munity importance, Dr. Gordon Bates, nationally known public health auâ€" thority and general director of the Health League of Canada, relates the following story. For obvious reasons the names must be omittedâ€"though Onâ€" tario is the actual location. Sir James Woods Wrote 7,500 Personal Letters in Orcanization Efforts. "But alas a bacteriological checkâ€"up reveals the fact that of all of the milk in town the soâ€"called pasteurized milk makes the worst showing with a count which frequently runs up over a mxl- lion. "‘The Medical officer of health, a partâ€"time official paid a â€"pittance for duties so onerous he cannot possibly perform them, has not visited the pasâ€" teurizing plant for years. The milk inâ€" spector, a somewhat elderly gentleman, retireq from another calling with no training whatever, can do little to reâ€" medy the situation, The newspaper editor who might do something to help mould public opinion, happens to be the patient of the doctor. He says the doctor is a fine fellow but he‘s not so good on prevention. "Urged to print a series of articles on pasteurization the editor refuses and the fact comes out that Mr. Editor does not believe in pasteurization. He thinks that much of the scare of microbes and basteria is fanciful. "Not far from the domicile of this intelligent editor is a boys‘ camp supâ€" ported by the generousâ€"hearted activiâ€" ties of an energetic service club I shall not name. One of the major acâ€" tivities of the service club is the supâ€" port of a crippled children‘s comtnittee from a radio owner at Englehart urging the estabâ€" lishment of a government radio relay station for the North. This is a matter that Jos. A. Bradette, M.P., should bring very forcibly to the attention of the Dominion government this session. A heading in The Ottawa Journal on Tuesday read:â€""Quarters Needed for Mental Cases." Yes and quarters are needed also to keep a lot of people from becoming mental cases. Rev. John Coburn, of Toronto, this week told a gathering of ministers at Montreal that is one reâ€" cent week no less than $2,500 was spent in the beer canteen at Valcartier relief camp at Valcartier, Que. As the total allowance to men and officers at APPROX IMATELY ONE CENT PER MILE Sleeping Car Privileges Full particulars from CGoing Dates: Daily Feb. 28 to March Return Limit: 45 day TO ALL STATION®S® Good in Coaches only 1IT which supplics s crippled children plies raw milk â€" boys* camp. One crippling in chil 811 at of of CO, prospecUuIng trip to Louvincourt townâ€" ship, in Northern Quebec, with Joseph Sweet,‘ when he was taken ill. He left Cobalt Saturday afternoon. Born in Dublin, Ireland, 62 years ago, Mr. Burry came to Cohalt in August, 1905, and had made his home in that camp since. For eight years after first reaching there, he was employed at the old Coniagas mine, and he had been engaged at other properties in the disâ€" trict. He had prospected extensively throughout the mining areas of the North, commencing with a trip to the Abitibi Lake section nearly 30 years ago. In his younger days, Mr. Burry had been in the Royal Navy. He enlisted when a boy of 14 years and had servec in different parts of the world, includâ€" ing the China station. He left the navy in 1899, was married the same year and in 1904 came to Canada. For a year he lived in Sudbury and Coppet Cliff before coming to Cobalt in its early days. According to despatches from Lonâ€" don, England, this week, based on arâ€" ticles in British newspapers of imporâ€" tance and also from newspaper and telegraphic companies, it seems to be generally agreed anq expected that the coronation of the new King, His Maâ€" jesty Edward VIII, will take place some time in the month of May next year. There is a tentative suggestion that the actual date of the coronation might be arranged to fall on May 24th, Queen Victoria‘s birthdav. May 24th has been imong 7 Did v{( kKnown prospre and one of the in point of home to Coba Rouyn, where saturday nigh prospecting tri King‘s Coronation Likely in May, 1937 Mr. Burry is survived by his widow and three sons, Harry and Benny, in Kirkland Lake, and Jack, in Cobalt, also by two sisters, Mrs. Mary Groves and Mrs. Margaret Morrant, both in Oceasion will be Marked by Great Gathering of Statesâ€" men from All Parts of Empire. There is a fTéntalive suggestIOn Ulhnat the actual date of the coronation might be arranged to fall on May 24th, Queen Victoria‘s birthday. May 24th has been a specially cbserved holiday throughout the Empire for a great many years. In any event it seems to ‘be assured that the coronation ceremonies will Je in May, 1937. The occasion will be marked by a ereat gathering of statesmen from all parts â€" of theâ€" ‘Lmpifteée. An ecarly Aanâ€" nouncement regarding the actual dat: is expected. It was learned on good authority thai the next Imperial Conference will be held in 1937, either immediately before or after the coronation. The conferenc( has been postponed fromg 1936 so that the representatives of the Dominions will not have to journeys ir successive years, Actual date of the conference will be determined â€" consultation with the Dominions. Following ths coronation ceremony it is anticipated the King will visif Edinburgh, Belfast and Carnarvon LAlEr in 1957, pOSSIDIY 11L UL is expected to go to India to bi as Emperor at Delhi. The possibility that King EC visit the Dominions is being t vassed but the matter is still planatory stage. The diplon respondent of the Daily Heral prediction to this effect some il ‘obalt Prospector Dies on Trip to Louvincourt 11 an avetr loin pot oysters? ; includ C °Y ar ronto of 40 11 n 48 rda tAirOi 10. O0K nd A 1 Belf ol mi pound residence, was brough ilt Monday evening fror > he died suddenly lat it. Mr. Burry was on to Louvincourt town splints and braces for i. The same club supâ€" to the hbovys in their of Mmi re-: The management of the T. N. 0. Railway was eer| changed by the present government, but the good ier,| old policy of the railroad remains the same. There ; at| are still freight train wrecks, but no one is hurt. COne cen hnhat y members of the [ Charles Burry, wellâ€" of the North Country lest citizens of Cobalt dence, was brought f{onday evening from The diplomatic c Daily Herald mad effect some days a ronation ceremony he King will visit t and Carnarvon ibly in October, h India to be crownec ounds 50 cen be marked by a atesmen from all re. An early anâ€" per v the V reliet A local reader writes The Advance to enquire why so much commercial advertising is permitted at local radio stations on Sunday. It may be a shrewd scheme of the ministerial association to encourage men to go to church on Sundays rather than stay home to listen to the radio. idemic of sep 0, Ill., account was traced t nparison a0 »ndaemic f Mont deaths ikin Mr. Burry had y. He enlisted and had served world, includâ€" hos 10 Valcartier relief camp amounts to only $5,500 week, it would appear that many of those at Valcartier relief camp are on beer as well as on vitltamlt contair c(HIPSe W dfish at a of chicken ts, 1 pound $1.00 worth 1 in an € epidemic ik 681 had re diseas: ward wil ol 1t That the Darwin Gold Mine in the Michipicoten district holds good posâ€" sibilities of becoming a "materially larger mine of real importance to everâ€" increasing Canadian gold production," is the conviction expressed by H. A. Kee, M.E., in a report issued February 4, and covering operations from March 1935 to February 1936. Mr. Kee reports to the Soard of directors of Darwin as president of Corporation Management and Executives Ltd., which is the mines‘ management subsidiary of H. R. Bain and Co. Ltd. The Darwin comprises all the former claims and equipment of the old Graca Mine which produced considerable gold in several operations. It was taken over and reâ€"habilitated by H. R. Bain and Co. Limited and the sum of $100,000 was expended before public participaâ€" tion. A total of $400,000 has now been exp@ndéed principally on mill and plant and on shaft sinking ang underground work. H. A. Kee Believes Darwin to be Mine of Importance SUN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF CANADA SUN LIFE A s NCE C OM OF CA NA DA. notably to national and industrial progress. INCOME w hi d i PX y o 2 ie 1 o 0 w ) t t c c L o) Dt DISBURSEMENTS = *£¥CESS OFf IN~NCOME OVER DlSBURSEMENTS ASSURANCE IN FORCE, December 31, 1935 â€" NEW ASSURANCES PAID FOR «i = PAYMENTS TO POLICYHOLDERS AND BEMEFICI ARIES During the year 1935 ® m > 4C m " T Since Organlization â€" o : k « % ASSETS â€" » » = = LIABILINES _â€" = = P AIDâ€"UP CAPITAL (S! 000,000 ) and bslance at u:du of shucholdcu sccount « RESERVE for depreciation ln mortgag es and reel estate i i The 65th Annual Statement of the volunury coâ€"operative enterprise which for generations has stood every test The valuation of the assets has been made in accordance with the hasis authorized by the Insurance Department of the Dominion of Cansasda thousands SUMMARY OF DIRECTORS‘ REPORT Reflects the Strength and Stability of Life Assurance HIGHLIGHTS OF,1935 THURSDAY FEBRUARY i3TH, 193 The Arnprior Chronicle appropriately says that "if the taxpayers in this town who complain and complain, and who buy potatoss for those who refuse to grow them, and who qgaily in summer months see masses of weeds growing luxuriantly in tillable soil, if these taxâ€" payers could see men producing things for themselves in these vacant lots, these same taxpayers would feel more amenable toward providing other neâ€" cessities of life for those who are vicâ€" tims of the times." expansion when dsemed advisable. He congratulates Dr. M. H. Frohberg, resiâ€" dent superintendent, upon his efficient supervision in developing a successful and promising gold producer. Cochrane boa cord recently to of the North c and permanentl way unless some the Quebec ; scheme is adont Ol tlrade again bonus, together terest in felt that withou the district will ting the right s« after securing greater trouble tented and prc Cochrane Board of Trade Urges Colonization PI Try The Advance Want Advertisements I didn‘t know 14 Pine St "my eyes weren‘t normal until I had them examâ€" ined. Then I learned they had been slightly defective since birth. If I had known sooner, they would have been comâ€" pletely restored by now. However by wearing the glasses Mr. Curtis preâ€" scribed, my eyes will gradually improve and will be spared trouble that would have resul‘/ d from further neglect." 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